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Joan Crawford
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Joan Crawford - what members say
review by from Belfast, N.Ireland
The Performance, the performance...the performance!! 14 November 2006
review by A customer from Manchester, England
Gender and genre bender 25 May 2005
review by Savage from London, England
Sex and money 11 December 2006
Joan Crawford - filmography
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Trog
(1970)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate: 
Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama. The creature is found in a cave and brought to her laboratory to undergo tests for her research. The hairy beast with the face of a monkey loves classical music and hates ..read more »
 
41%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Night Gallery - Series 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Diane Keaton, Joan Crawford, Roddy McDowall
Director: Steven Spielberg
Certificate: 
Rod Serling branched out from his TWILIGHT ZONE television series in the early 1970s with NIGHT GALLERY. The material was darker than most Serling-fans had come to expect, with plenty of horror and creepy chills included in each episode. A constant throughout the show was the eerie beginning, which ..read more »
61%
from 268 members
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Johnny Guitar
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden
Director: Nicholas Ray
Certificate: 
Strong-willed saloon-casino owner Vienna squares off against her nemesis, the shrieking Emma Small, who wrongly blames Vienna for her brother's death.
70%
from 908 members
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962)
Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Director: Robert Aldrich
Certificate: 
Bette Davis plays former child star 'Baby' Jane Hudson who is taking care of her wheelchair bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), herself once a leading movie star whose career eclipsed her sister Jane when they became adults. Now both forgotten ageing relics of old Hollywood, the sisters live ..read more »
86%
from 32 members
Currently unavailable
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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Baby Jane (Davis) was a child star. When she grows up she is forgotten by the public. Instead her sister Blanche (Crawford) becomes famous as a Hollywood actress, overshadowing her sister who is increasingly bitter. After a mysterious car accident cripples her, Blanche is left wheelchair-bound at ..read more »
78%
from 3,548 members
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The Best of Everything
(1959)
Starring: Hope Lange, Joan Crawford
Director: Jean Negulesco
Certificate: 
Set in New York City during the 1950s, this melodrama follows the illicit affairs of several career women in the glamorous world of book-publishing. The women pay a heavy emotional price for their involvement with married men: one ends up pregnant and must make a difficult choice; another has a ..read more »
53%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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The Story of Esther Costello
(1957)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears
Director: David Miller
Certificate:
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence ..read more »
46%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Female on the Beach
(1955)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling
Director: Joseph Pevney
Certificate:
This movie is ideal for those in the mood for something steamy, overwrought and wonderfully trashy. Billed as a mystery, it centers on hapless Joan Crawford as a wealthy gambler's widow who exchanges the lights and excitement of Vegas for the anticipated serenity of the isolated beach house that ..read more »
66%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Sudden Fear
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Director: David Miller
Certificate:
Joan Crawford stars as wealthy San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson, a successful playwright who meets Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) while casting her new play in New York. They meet again on the train ride back, fall in love and marry. Unknown to Myra, Lester is seeing mistress Irene Neves (Gloria ..read more »
75%
from 90 members
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Humoresque
(1946)
Starring: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
Director: Jean Negulesco
Certificate: 
'Humoresque' tells the romantically tragic story of neurotic but wealthy socialite Helen Wright (Joan Crawford), and her affair with young, ambitious musician Paul Boray (John Garfield).
66%
from 198 members
Not currently released
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The Women
(1939)
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Director: George Cukor
Certificate:
A no-holds-barred comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes (both inter- and intragender) and starring Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, THE WOMEN is based on the play by Clare Boothe Luce and is set in high-society 1930s New York. Although no men appear in the film, they are its primary subject ..read more »
78%
from 111 members
Currently unavailable
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Dancing Lady
on DVD
(1933)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Certificate:
Janie (Joan Crawford) lives to dance and will dance anywhere - even in a Burlesque theatre. Rich playboy Tod Newton (Franchot Tone) discovers her and lands her a part in a Broadway musical, directed by a friend of his, Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable). Tod thinks that he can get what he wants from ..read more »
65%
from 57 members
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Grand Hotel
(1932)
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Director: Edmund Goulding
Certificate:
The creme de la creme of MGM's pantheon gathers at the luxurious GRAND HOTEL, where "nothing ever happens." Greta Garbo is at her most radiant and poetic as the melancholy ballerina who finds a reason to dance again after she falls for the down-and-out Baron (John Barrymore) who planned to rob her. ..read more »
65%
from 959 members
Not currently released
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Rain
on DVD
(1932)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan
Director: Lewis Milestone
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The story of a preacher who finds himself drawn to a prostitute during a sailing trip in the South Seas. The boat becomes stranded on the island of Pago Pago and this gives the preacher an opportunity to try to save her soul...
59%
from 120 members
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The Unknown
(1927)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Director: Tod Browning
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Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. Zanzi is killed by Alonzo (who really does have arms). Estrellita allows herself to fall in love with Alonzo (she fears men's arms), so he goes to a hospital and has his amputated. Meantime Malabar ..read more »
72%
from 43 members
Currently unavailable
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Joan Crawford - Always The Star
on DVD
Starring: Joan Crawford
Certificate: 
This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan ..read more »
65%
from 34 members
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Joan Crawford facts
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...listic, it's just meant to be fun. I also very much liked the performance of a Joan Crawford as the stenographer.
Old films need to be watched and viewed in the context ...
